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Now he was calling her “darling”

Pari & Dan

Dan didn’t go to India to find a wife. He went to serve at a small Christian hostel that housed children going to school away from home. For many of them, he was the first American they had ever seen.

Dan didn’t know he had met his wife. He just knew that this mischievous teenager was not blinded by the fact that he had come from a rich country.

Read the rest of their story at Boundless:
Don’t Mind the Gap
Cross-Culture Marriage

He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” So His merciful and miraculous leading is individual—“Thou (singular) shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.” The temptation is great to imitate or to expect the same manner of guidance which God has given another. “What is that to Thee; follow thou Me.” His Word abounds in examples of His separate leading of His sheep.

(from the journal of Elisabeth Elliot, quoted in Devotedly by Valorie Elliot Shepard)

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